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Tahsin Necati Efendi

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Dimili, Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1883 to 1903 (AH 1301 to 1320)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00088_00248

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 9 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

These dated entries have no agreed map position. Their places remain in the account.

Stage 1 of 9 · Dimili, Çemişgezek

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

9 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Dimili, Çemişgezek

    Not yet located on the map: Dimili, Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Haleb / Haleb Telgrafhanesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb; Haleb Telgrafhanesi

    1. Haleb

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Haleb Telgrafhanesi

      Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 4 recorded years

    Haleb Telgrafhanesi

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Telgrafhanesi

    1. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Haleb Telgrafhanesi / Adana Telgrafhanesi / Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Telgrafhanesi; Adana Telgrafhanesi; Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

    1. Haleb Telgrafhanesi

      Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

      Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      450 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 6 recorded years

    Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

    1. Telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru

      450 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf merkezi sermuhabere memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Haleb Telgraf Merkezi / Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Haleb Telgraf Merkezi; Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi

    1. Haleb Telgraf Merkezi

      Telgraf merkezi sermuhabere memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere başmemuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 29

  7. 7

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi / Adana Telgraf ve Posta Başmüdüriyeti / Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi; Adana Telgraf ve Posta Başmüdüriyeti; Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere başmemuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

      Muhasebe kalemi memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 3 recorded years

    Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muhasebe kalemi memuru

      750 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhasebe kalemi memuru

      850 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    Not yet located on the map: Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muvazene ve hesaplar masası kitabeti refakati memuru

      900 kuruşCalculated age 36

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1888/89 (AH 1306)450400135 to 1,50052.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)450400130 to 1,50053.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)450400125 to 1,50053.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)450400140 to 1,60053.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)600400135 to 1,50065.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)600400140 to 1,40065.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)600400140 to 1,50065.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)600400140 to 1,50064.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)750450150 to 1,57573.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)800400140 to 1,42579.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)800400144 to 1,40078.4%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)850400140 to 1,44079.7%1821
1902/03 (AH 1320)900400150 to 1,50079.9%1627

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Haleb Telgraf Merkezi8
    1888 to 1896 (AH 1306 to 1313)
  2. Haleb Telgrafhanesi6
    1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
  3. Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi5
    1896 to 1903 (AH 1314 to 1320)
  4. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi2
    1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  5. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Başmüdüriyeti1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)
  6. Adana Telgrafhanesi1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Haleb Telgraf Merkezi450 to 600
  2. Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi750 to 900
  3. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi600
  4. Adana Telgraf ve Posta Başmüdüriyeti675 to 750
  5. Adana Telgrafhanesi400

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
  2. 1888 to 1893 (AH 1306 to 1310)
  3. 1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
  4. 1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
  5. 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Haleb Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 263, 264

    356 DH_SAİDd_____00088_00248

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 27 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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